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> other than to add to their palmares I learned an interesting, though obscure, word today: palmarès: a list of races a (bicycle) rider has won. (French, mean
by alister 9y ago
> other than to add to their palmares
I learned an interesting, though obscure, word today:
palmarès: a list of races a (bicycle) rider has won. (French, meaning list of achievements or list of winners).
- ambivalents 9y agoThank you! You saved me a) a quick Google search myself, and b) the attendant self-conscious wondering about whether this is a word everyone knows and that I too should know by now.
- jdmitch 9y agoI don't think it's that obscure in British english usage, even outside of cycling contexts (source: American living in the UK)
- FabHK 9y agoInteresting. It's not in the Oxford Dictionary of English powering the Dictionary bundled with macOS, and it's not known to dictionary.com, so I'd say it's fairly obscure. http://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=palmares http://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=palmares